Evelyn

“And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“The most stylish and successful rooms are not those who slavishly follow a theme, but those who evolve gradually.”
― Anoop Parikh